Hello everyone and welcome to Locked on Nuggets. Thanks for joining me. I'm Matt Moore,

Senior NBA Writer of the Action Network, and Nuggets Insider for 1043 The Fan. On today's show,

I'm going to talk about the team's identity. I want to get to the bottom of who the Nuggets are,

because it's a question that I've asked Malone a lot the last couple of seasons. I think we finally know

who this team is and maybe who it should be. And so we're going to talk a little bit about that

today on this, a shorter edition of Locked On Nuggets. Tomorrow we're back to World's Finest

Without a Marez, and I have quite the question to pose to Mr. Mariz tomorrow. Be sure

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All right.

So let's talk about who the Denver Nuggets are.

To answer that, we're going to have to go back to the start of the Malone era and ask who they were.

They were a mess. I mean, they were a mess. I really can't express to you how depressing this team was from 2014 to 2000.

And to the end, really, of 2016. Like, that's pretty much where the team started to turn around if we go back

in this period of time uh in which the nuggets kind of transformed under michael malone um as

nikola yokech joined up we go back and we look at who this team was it's just so remarkably

different um some names from the 2015-16 season. Axel

Tupane, Tupon, played 21 games. DJ Augustine traded mid-season, four mid-season, 28 games.

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